{"id":19521,"date":"2016-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/john-cleese-warns-that-political-correctness-is-killing-comedy\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:00:00","slug":"john-cleese-warns-that-political-correctness-is-killing-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/john-cleese-warns-that-political-correctness-is-killing-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cleese warns that political correctness is killing comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Saying he was warned not to take his stand-up routine onto university campuses, Monty Python star and comedy legend John Cleese says political correctness is killing comedy and creating a dystopian society.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIf you start to think \u2018ooh, we mustn\u2019t criticise or offend them\u2019, humour is gone, with humour goes a sense of proportion, and then as far as I\u2019m concerned we\u2019re living in 1984,\u201d Cleese said in a reference to the George Orwell book.<\/p>\n<p>In the outburst, made in a <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/videos\/john-cleese-on-political-correctness\" target=\"_blank\">video for Big Think<\/a>, Cleese said people don\u2019t have a right to be \u201cprotected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John cleese warns that political correctness is killing comedy | FIVEAA\" title=\"John cleese warns that political correctness is killing comedy | FIVEAA\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/fawlty.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>John Cleese in his hit comedy Fawlty Towers, filmed in the 1970s<\/h6>\n<h3>Cleese quoted psychologist Robin Skynner, saying: \u201cIf people can\u2019t control their own emotions then they need to start controlling other people\u2019s behaviour.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWhen you&#8217;re around people who are super-sensitive, you can\u2019t relax, be spontaneous as you have no idea what is going to upset them next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been warned recently not to go to university campuses because political correctness has been taken from being a good idea, from \u2018let\u2019s not be mean particularly to people who are not able to look after themselves very well\u2019, to the point where any kind of criticism of any kind of individual or group can be labelled cruel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the whole point about humour, the whole point about comedy, and believe you me I\u2019ve thought about this, is that all comedy is critical.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>And now for something completely different:<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/brendan-fevola-says-getting-sacked-was-best-thing-that-happened-to-him\">AFL STAR SAYS GETTING SACKED THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO HIM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/research-suggests-that-being-disorganised-is-actually-a-good-thing\">THIS BAD HABIT ACTUALLY MEANS YOU\u2019RE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying he was warned not to take his stand-up routine onto university campuses, Monty Python star and comedy legend John Cleese says political correctness is killing comedy and creating a dystopian society. \u201cIf you start to think \u2018ooh, we mustn\u2019t criticise or offend them\u2019, humour is gone, with humour goes a sense of proportion, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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